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Re: Via announces $49 PC with Android OS
« on: May 24, 2012, 04:55:27 PM »
Quote from: phoenixkonsole;694064
halelujah!
Efika MX is a far far better deal than a pi. Especially if someone plans to use AROS.
You think? It's three and a half times the cost, runs at 1.14x the clock rate (or likely 2.2x the speed, counting its better core,) and has 2x the RAM at the same speed. I haven't gotten a chance to compare a Pi's video performance, but I definitely remember the Efika MX's GPU being weaksauce. Not what I'd call a better deal at all, and that's not even getting into the fact that the Pi team are making all the documentation they can available, while Genesi doesn't really have any interest in hobbyist hackers at all.
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